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Message-ID: <20081104075138.GA2096@earth.li>
Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:51:38 +0000
From:	Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...th.li>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes for 2.6.28-rc


In article <490F824E.3070809@...zik.org> (earth.lists.linux-kernel) you wrote:
> Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > are you also queuing patches for drivers/net/usb/hso.c, because the 
> > current state of that driver is fully broken. It oopses and shows up 
> > with a WLAN RFKILL switch instead of WWAN. Also it has some weird 
> > disconnect race with the TTY layer. Some patches have been posted, but 
> > seems that nobody has picked them up so far.

> Last patch sent me was sent on 9/16 by Denis Joseph Barrow; I replied 
> and never received a response after that.

> Patches welcome...

> I don't see any hso patches on
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ nor in my inbox, so I'm 
> guessing that no one sent me or netdev any hso patches.

I sent the below to netdev@, Greg K-H and Andrew Bird (the people listed
in hso.c). I can't see it in the netdev archives but it did hit lkml ok
at:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/30/92

A subsequent fix for the rfkill layer has also been sent (and that did
hit netdev ok and got acked), but this hso cleanup is still appropriate.

The WLAN/WWAN change is obviously a one line fix but I didn't see any
point sending a patch for it until I knew I was going to get some sort
of response about it; I can knock one up if that's helpful.

Original message:

[PATCH] Cleanup hso rfkill error handling

Yup, this appears to be the problem, thanks. I think &hso_net->net->dev
is more intuitive for the error message, so I've used that. I've also
added missing line endings on the error messages and set our local
rfkill structure element to NULL on failure so we don't try to call
rfkill_unregister on driver removal if we failed to register at all.

The patch below Works For Me (TM); the device is detected fine, can be
removed without problems and connects ok. I'll have a prod at why the
rfkill stuff isn't working next, but I believe this cleanup of the error
handling is appropriate no matter what the issue with registration is.

Signed-Off-By: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...th.li>

-----
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
index 1164c52..9d9622b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
@@ -2184,19 +2184,20 @@ static void hso_create_rfkill(struct hso_device *hso_dev,
 			     struct usb_interface *interface)
 {
 	struct hso_net *hso_net = dev2net(hso_dev);
-	struct device *dev = hso_dev->dev;
+	struct device *dev = &hso_net->net->dev;
 	char *rfkn;
 
 	hso_net->rfkill = rfkill_allocate(&interface_to_usbdev(interface)->dev,
 				 RFKILL_TYPE_WLAN);
 	if (!hso_net->rfkill) {
-		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory", __func__);
+		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory\n", __func__);
 		return;
 	}
 	rfkn = kzalloc(20, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rfkn) {
 		rfkill_free(hso_net->rfkill);
-		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory", __func__);
+		hso_net->rfkill = NULL;
+		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory\n", __func__);
 		return;
 	}
 	snprintf(rfkn, 20, "hso-%d",
@@ -2209,7 +2210,8 @@ static void hso_create_rfkill(struct hso_device *hso_dev,
 		kfree(rfkn);
 		hso_net->rfkill->name = NULL;
 		rfkill_free(hso_net->rfkill);
-		dev_err(dev, "%s - Failed to register rfkill", __func__);
+		hso_net->rfkill = NULL;
+		dev_err(dev, "%s - Failed to register rfkill\n", __func__);
 		return;
 	}
 }
-----

J.

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